copy editor
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Before joining the Journal, he was weekend editor and a senior copy editor at The Times and The Sunday Times in London.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
“I have been on strike for a third of my professional life,” said Erin Hebert, a 32-year-old copy editor at the Post-Gazette.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025
ChatGPT does, however, need a human copy editor.
From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025
If you want to call yourself an “independent press” show me your copy editor first.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2024
The copy editor at Harcourt kept filling the margins of the galley proofs with questions: ‘How can it be before Europe but after Paris?’
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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